Exam question 1 · Fairy Tales, Fiordelisa: the kitchen-maid buys one more ni…

Which phrase in the passage indicates the manner in which Turritella addresses the peasant girl?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: phrase, Turritella · What happens: indicate, address · To what, where: manner, peasant girl

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1870 «Fairy Tales, Fiordelisa: the kitchen-maid buys one more night and wins back her husband, and Turritella becomes an owl» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 phrase	det
2	phrase	phrase	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 indicates	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 passage	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 passage	det
5	passage	passage	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 phrase	nmod
6	indicates	indicate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 manner	det
8	manner	manner	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 indicates	obj
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 which	case
10	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 addresses	obl
11	Turritella	Turritella	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 addresses	nsubj
12	addresses	address	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 manner	acl:relcl
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 girl	det
14	peasant	peasant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 girl	amod
15	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 addresses	obj
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 indicates	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	indicate	present	which phrase in the passage	the manner					vn indicate-78-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot manner=Topic
2	address	present	Turritella		the peasant girl	the manner			vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girl=Destination

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Condescendingly, as a poor creature who must be pitied greatly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Condescendingly	condescendingly	ADV	_	6 creature	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Condescendingly	punct
3	as	as	ADP	_	6 creature	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 creature	det
5	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 creature	amod
6	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 pitied	nsubj:pass
8	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 pitied	aux
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 pitied	aux:pass
10	pitied	pity	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 creature	acl:relcl
11	greatly	greatly	ADV	_	10 pitied	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pity	must · passive		a poor creature				greatly property	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus

Option 2

Condescendingly, as a poor creature, and with a mocking laugh

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Condescendingly	condescendingly	ADV	_	6 creature	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Condescendingly	punct
3	as	as	ADP	_	6 creature	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 creature	det
5	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 creature	amod
6	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 creature	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 laugh	cc
9	with	with	ADP	_	12 laugh	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 laugh	det
11	mocking	mocking	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 laugh	compound
12	laugh	laugh	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 creature	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Condescendingly, as a poor creature

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Condescendingly	condescendingly	ADV	_	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Condescendingly	punct
3	as	as	ADP	_	6 creature	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 creature	det
5	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 creature	amod
6	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Condescendingly	obl

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

Rudely and loudly, as a grand lady

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Rudely	rudely	ADV	_	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 loudly	cc
3	loudly	loudly	ADV	_	1 Rudely	conj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Rudely	punct
5	as	as	ADP	_	8 lady	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 lady	det
7	grand	grand	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 lady	amod
8	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Rudely	obl

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1870-pg7277-part7/e1/